I recently spent a bit of time in Europe, and with COVID cases rising, it was important for me to understand the numbers that might drive policy (read: closures) that may affect my time there. This week I want to…
zankJuly 27, 2021
Remember what happened to A.I. when the pandemic started almost exactly a year ago? At first, we all noticed how A.I. models were suddenly off. Purchasing behavior and behavior overall became much less predictable and data scientists were needed to…
zankMarch 16, 2021
We’ve seen language models before: enter a question and an A.I. provides the “answer”. Nowadays, A.I. has gotten so good that humans cannot differentiate between an A.I.-derived answer and a human-given answer. Language models have been called the greatest A.I.…
zankFebruary 23, 2021
The esteemed journal Nature recently published an article titled, Predicting COVID-19 mortality with electronic medical records. That’s a big deal. Because it’s not a study looking at predicting mortality from hospital records of admitted patients; rather it uses only electronic…
zankFebruary 16, 2021